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Web Tools: CGI, HTML, and Perl
This course is designed for people with basic Perl script programming knowledge.
Advancing your knowledge of the Perl scripting language, you will develop an understanding
of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and interactive CGI-supported Web pages.
Course Information
Duration:
8 weeks, 13 hours per week (104 hours)
Weekly:
3 hours lecture (professor)
3 hours lab (professor)
7 hours group work (instructor)
Environment
Unix: Sun Solaris, Linux (Intel platform)
Microsoft Windows: Intel platform
Prerequisites
To succeed in this course, you must already be able to:
 | Understand basic programming language constructs: variables, looping, branching,
conditional statements, etc. |
| Write basic Perl programs and shell scripts in the Unix and Windows environments. |
Course Learning Objectives
After this course, you will have acquired the following skills:
Basic Skills:
| Find and use tools to generate HTML documents and templates |
| Use the full power of Perl as a programming language |
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Skills:
| Understand the basics of Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) |
| Understand the utility and capabilities of CGI programs |
| Know how clients and servers interact |
| Pass parameters and data between client and server |
| Write CGI programs |
| Retrieving parameters, sending forms, maintaining state between forms |
Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) Skills:
| Understand the basic syntax and layout of an HTML document |
| Use tools to generate documents |
| Customize page layout |
| Use frames, tables |
| Create HTML forms |
Perl Programming Skills:
| Variables: scalars, arrays, hashes, quoting |
| Flow Control: while loop, for loop, for loop with lists, if statement, statement
modifiers |
| Operators: PERL operator table, increment, decrement, mathematically styled operators,
named operators, relational operators, etc. |
| Subroutines: creating subroutines, parameter passing, fixing name space pollution, the
local operator, the shift operator, return values, subroutine declarations and calling
syntax |
| Regular Expressions: standard regular expressions, PERL regular expressions, additional
special escapes, regular expression operators, patterns with variable syntax, the
substitution operator, using $_ |
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